September 2009 - Scott Jones

Month: September 2009

This Magic Moment

The other day I noticed some piers in the water on the Embarcadero, and I went out this morning to use them as a foreground element in a sunrise shot of the Bay Bridge. I made those exposures, got pretty much what I was after, then packed up and went back to the truck to […]

Once more, with feeling!

Last fog image for a while. Maybe. Info, same as below, but 110 seconds, F/9, 70mm.

Tucked In For The Night

Another amazing instance of fog last evening, but this time it covered pretty much the entire view from Grizzly Peak. I arrived just before the sun disappeared and found the blanket of thick fog covering all three bridges, and pretty much everything else below my lofty perch. In the distance only the top of Sutro […]

Glowing Fog

Another image from the amazing fog the other night. Where the fog moved over lights from the city, it glowed eerily…

Rising Tide

When shooting landscapes here in the Bay Area, I’m usually in San Francisco wishing I lived there so I could respond quickly to changing weather. I often see what look like interesting conditions from Oakland, but don’t have time to get across the bridge and into position; the light and conditions change too quickly for […]

A Million Silent Worlds

Those stars we can see through the haze of pollution and wash of city lights look white for the most part. But get up to altitude, to clear, dark air and you can see that stars come in many colors. I drove to Yosemite on Tuesday night and as I was descending into the valley […]

Mirrors Up!

A sharp photograph is the result of accurate focus and a still camera, and good technique in photography helps achieve both. Using a tripod is probably the biggest help to keeping your camera still, but sometimes you can do more. Shooting in Mirror Up mode can help make super sharp long exposures.

Cozy

While looking for light in the stormy sky yesterday, we happened to stop by the harbor adjacent to the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Baker to see what we might see. I noticed this old MG wrapped up in a colorful tarp. I used the Nikon 14-24mm wide angle both for some perspective and to […]

Sausalito Sunrise

Thunder and lightning woke me up at 3 AM this morning, and I toyed with the idea of going out early to see if I could catch a bolt during such a rare Bay Area thunderstorm. I went back to bed. Got up as planned at 5, though, and set out to see what Mother […]

Amazing Light

Yesterday I’d seen several views of the Golden Gate Bridge with a fantastic wave of fog rolling in, obscuring the bridge itself but low enough that the towers were peeking through, and hoped it would last until I could head over there in the evening. By the time I got moving across the Bay Bridge, […]